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| Title | The Iowa Historical Record, Volumes 16-18 |
| Editor | Frederick Lloyd |
| Contributor | State Historical Society of Iowa |
| Publisher | The Society, 1902 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 25 Jan 2008 |
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